Mirjana Dragaš

Dragaš was born in Belgrade, then part of the People's Republic of Serbia in the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. She is a graduate of sociology and is administrator of the Dositej Obradović Foundation.^[1] Between 1998 and 2000, she was the deputy minister of labour, health, and social security in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.^[2] Dragaš is the president of the social policy council of the Socialist Party and has served on the party's executive board and women's forum.^[3]

Dragaš received the twenty-first position on a coalition electoral list led by the Socialist Party in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election and was elected when the list won forty-four mandates.^[4] She received the forty-fifth position on the list in the 2014 election and, as the list once again won forty-four mandates, narrowly missed direct re-election.^[5] She was, however, awarded a mandate on May 10, 2014, as a replacement for party leader Ivica Dačić, who had resigned to take a cabinet position.^[6] During this sitting of the assembly, she served as deputy chair of the committee on labour, social issues, social inclusion, and poverty reduction.^[7]

She received the thirty-ninth list position in the 2016 parliamentary election; as the Socialist-led list won twenty-nine mandates, she once again missed direct election. She was able to take her seat on October 12, 2017, as a replacement for Ivan Karić, who had resigned.^[8] The Socialist Party has been part of Serbia's coalition government since 2008, and Dragaš has been part of the government's parliamentary majority throughout her time in the assembly.